Re: FS Unions

Eric Brunet (ebrunet@clipper.ens.fr)
Mon, 14 Jun 1999 16:59:17 +0200 (MET DST)

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In ens.rezo.mailing-lists.linux-kernel, you wrote:
>All modifications go into the overlapping fs. All you need from it is a
>way to represent whiteouts (normally done as entries with reserved
>inumber value).

I don't quite understand: do you have to modify all the filesystems to
introduce the concept of ``whiteouts'' and ``non-transparent
directories'' ?

Éric Brunet

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